Talk:Ubuntu Hardy Installation Guide

Installing Support for an ATI Graphics card did not work

excuse me, I am an absolute newby in Linux and Ubuntu.

I have a PC with an ATI Fire GL2, which is an AGP graphics adapter. It is not recognized automaticallsy, so Ubuntu can not enter the graphical mode. Therefore I used the Alternate Installation CD, after the Live CD ended without graphics mode.

During these commands, the computer had an internet connection and the message lines did not look like having failed.

Then I wanted to edit xorg.conf using

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

but that did not work, because a graphical mode is not available - the reason to do this all.

I found that there is another editor which works in the text mode so I typed:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I searched for a section "Device", below it was a line, that it is an autoconfigured device (I missed to note the exact line of the original xorg.conf). I left that line in the file and below it, I added:

Driver "fglrx"

I quit nano saving the modified xorg.conf.

Then I executed the command

sudo aticonfig --initial -f

which gave the message: Uninitialized file found, configuring Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I do not know, if this indicates right or wrong!

Then I was not sure, if I should first reboot or do the test

fglrxinfo

so I did that first which yielded

Error: unable to display(null).

I concluded, that I should do the reboot. Doing so, Ubuntu did not enter a graphical mode.

I could just enter a terminal and check the fglrxinfo command again (giving the same sad result) and then I checked /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Now it looked like this: